"In seven games."
Posted on 11/01/2025 7:55:47 AM PDT by Az Joe
Game 6 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays ended with one of the most controversial calls you’ll see on this stage.
Video
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So, all that was required and did happen, he merely went over to it and picked it up. Did not have to pry it out.
Exactly, which is why there is a rule. Because the fielder was forced to "merely went over to it and picked it up" as opposed to play it off the wall with a predictable bounce, the runners were able to advance further.
Thanks. I’ll see the video on YouTube probably and judge for myself.
Since the ball was lodged, it required to outfielder to run all the way to the fence, as opposed to if the ball bounces off the wall, the ball moves toward the outfielder, which allows him to throw the ball back to the infield sooner.
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Entirely plausible and also likely scenario. Not a Dodgers fan and even less a Canada fan. 100% correct call. Second and third with no outs. Momentum is entirely with the Jays. Game over in 3 pitches. Pop up, ball one, double play. Baseball still is a great game even though all the rules are trying to eff it up.
Maybe that is true, the outfielder took a chance and got lucky. We can argue all day long, but the rule gives the latitude to the umpire (in his judgement).
I give that outfielder lot's of credit for following the Willie Mays rule..."don't touch them"
That is a kind of like believing the earth is flat. Eye roll
I don’t doubt they’re giving the Dodgers every possible advantage. The announcers worship of Ohtani the other night was annoying.
Agreed. The fielder new the rule and did the right thing. Kudos to him. Good job on the fielder and the umps all around.
"In seven games."
That wascawwy MLB. Manipulating the flight of a baseball so the Dodgers stand a chance.
Can’t remember how many times I saw balls lost in the ivy in Wrigley. Outfielders knew back then to just throw their hands up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UqqlZOvEKM
A fix? Get real. It’s just a book call. I can’t for the life of me figure out how at that point in a world series game they could get that ball to become lodged under the pads so the game could be manipulated.
It’s in the way the rule is written in the book:
A MLB “lodged ball” rule applies when a batted ball gets stuck in an outfield wall’s padding, ivy, or other objects on the field, making it a dead ball. The result is an automatic ground-rule double, with the batter and any runners on base each awarded two bases from their position at the time of the pitch. It stems from the ball being in contract with something not on the playing surface. The bottom and back side of the padding is not part of the surface.
MLB Rule 5.05(a)(7) defines a lodged ball as a fair batted ball that is interrupted from its natural trajectory and stuck in a fence, scoreboard, shrubbery, or vines, making it unplayable.
The rule does not take into the consideration if the ability of retrieving the ball is possible, just that the ball is stuck and is touching an out of play area and they are saying by rule it makes it unplayable whether it can or not be ripped out from under the fence. It’s been in the book for MLB since 1956 and before that dates back to 1845 in the Knickerbocker rules.
wy69
“Can’t remember how many times I saw balls lost in the ivy in Wrigley.” And sometimes the ball they did retrieve and throw back was the one that had just gone in when they did find it.
wy69
Looks like Kike threw his hands up first
It doesn’t matter what actually happened, it’s ALWAYS the umpire’s fault. /s
At that point, the Dodgers had been out of Brooklyn for less than two years.
Each chapter was either a replay or a theoretical play highlighting obscure baseball rules that if called correctly would change the outcome that resulted from the actual call on the field.
Well, the tragedy of the Dodgers departure is now 67 years in the past. The Dodgers have been in Los Angeles longer than they were in Brooklyn.
And until I read this post I still had never heard of the lodged ball rule.
“Can’t remember how many times I saw balls lost in the ivy in Wrigley.” And sometimes the ball they did retrieve and throw back was the one that had just gone in when they did find it.
“What’s the score?”
“Nothing-Nothing”
“Who’s winning?”
“The Bears!”
Suhhh-wing batter!
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